Perry to give Constitution Day lecture on Frederick Douglass

Posted August 29, 2012; 03:49 p.m.

by Staff

For the University's annual Constitution Day Lecture, Imani Perry, a Princeton professor of African American studies, will give a talk titled "The Belief in Things Unseen: Frederick Douglass and the Constitutional Imagination" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. The respondents, both Princeton faculty members, will be Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and professor of politics; and Nell Painter, the Edwards Professor of American History, Emeritus.